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Michael Grinich unveiled auth.md with early support from Cloudflare and Firecrawl, giving apps a standard way to onboard AI agents without brittle browser hacks.

In a thread on X, Nav Toor said Frigate, an MIT-licensed NVR app, offers no cloud, no subscription, and privacy by default, citing 32,057 GitHub stars.

The public GitHub project under superset-sh is shipping agent skills, a Linear ticket draft flow, and editor UX tweaks, with 10.9k stars and nearly 2,900 commits.

Jam claims 2,000+ companies, developers, and operators already using the tool, after starting as a side project that devtool founders paid thousands to access.

Rai says ThineAI runs in the background to capture work and life context and return it on demand; early access is rolling out to iOS testers, with Android not live yet.

Austin Energy will dispatch a 40 MW fleet of home batteries from Base Power for peak shaving and price spikes, while homeowners get whole-home backup.

After a 3-2 vote to cancel Flock Safety's LPR contract, a dissenting councilmember vowed to propose banning phones, internet, and cameras across the 900-person town.

The team says an automated GCP suspension cascaded past Google to knock every Railway workload offline until early May 20.

Railway says it regained partial Google Cloud access and is working with support to restore workloads; at least one user reports app servers and databases down across projects; no ETA, with updates on X.

The company frames the system as a step toward hatching giant birds like the South Island moa and says it could extend to broader wildlife conservation.

Researchers tie a 22-minute mass publish from a compromised npm account to the same toolkit seen in the recent SAP-related incident, with CI and AI tool persistence.

A short X post frames Atlas as doing whole-body manipulation, shifting emphasis from acrobatics to moving real, awkward objects.

CancelFlow's site now outlines an embeddable retention flow that reads from Stripe via your publishable key, applies outcomes in Stripe, and supports A/B testing and full customization, with a 14-day free trial.

The site frames the West’s collapse and the East’s continuity through a browsable dataset and chaptered narrative drawn from thousands of late antique letters.

The creator of XS says the language is at v1.2.15 and has a playground and docs live at xslang.org, inviting developers to try it and weigh in.

The macOS app lets developers review staged and unstaged changes locally, add inline comments, export to Markdown, and call an LLM with a -w flag.

In a thread on X, the company said no customer data was accessed, it invalidated the leaked credentials, and it will publish a post-incident review.

The Narrabundah College team published open docs and software for capturing the 21 cm hydrogen line with off-the-shelf parts, backed by Science Mentors ACT.

The AI-first security shop reported a working MIE-surviving local kernel exploit to Apple after building it in five days with help from Mythos Preview.

Docs outline compile-time contracts, manual memory control, and a translate-c path to pull existing C code into Spectre.

The new mode navigates live UIs, critiques designs, debugs flows, and sends screenshots while it works, per a post on X.

An anonymous landing page skewers vanity metrics with a fake platform to “swap” dollars and book ARR, tapping a very real pressure founders feel to show traction fast.

Bun's creator says the Rust port passes tests, trims 3-8 MB off the binary, stays neutral-to-faster in benchmarks, and brings compiler-assisted memory safety.

The archivist who rallied a last-minute warehouse save says the loop is complete, with thousands of manuals digitized and accessible.